The SEO News Blog from Pat Marcello

In a news article at Telegraph.co.uk yesterday, Google’s vice president for search products and user experience, Marissa Mayer, says that Google is getting ready to have the ability to translate search results into any language, and to have the sites translated for you when you click through.

So, if someone in the U.S. searches a topic and the results include information from a German newspaper, the results would be in English, rather than German, and when you actually got to the site, it would also be in English rather than German.

That feature alone would have helped me when I researched materials for my biographies of the The Dalai Lama and Mohandas K. Gandhi. That might have been pretty sweet, but translations aren’t always up to par. Yet, that’s just one area where they’re making advances.

Mayer says that in the last 70 days, there have been 38 new search products that she has overseen. That’s pretty danged aggressive, no?

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